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from us. They then disappeared in the hollow 

 behind the next ridge to the one on which we 

 had taken our stand. 



In a few minutes the does reappeared, coming 

 straight towards us, the stag presently follow- 

 ing at a slow trot some distance behind them. 

 Looking at him with my glasses I saw that he 

 carried a very pretty head, but he was not for 

 me, for a streak of blood on his flank showed 

 that he was wounded. The does now trotted 

 down into the boggy ground below us, and 

 presently came up to within twenty yards of 

 where we were sitting, and then stood staring 

 at us for some time, evidently unable to make 

 us out. 



When I say they Avere within twenty yards 

 of us I am not exaggerating, and my guide 

 afterwards told me that cases were known 

 where several caribou standing with heads 

 close together, looking curiously at a man who 

 kept quite still, had been killed with one charge 

 of slugs fired from a heavy sealing gun. 



Whilst the does were looking at us the 

 wounded stag had halted in the bog below, 



